Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
House Votes to Expand National DNA Arrest Database
May 23rd, 2010Via: CNet: Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. By a 357 to 32 vote, the House approved legislation that will pay state governments to require […]
SSL Enabled Google Searches
May 22nd, 2010“Your investigative staff will collect its best evidence while users are lulled into a false sense of security afforded by web, e-mail or VOIP encryption.” —Governments Using Forged SSL Certificates for Man in the Middle Attack on “Secure” Web Sessions A reader asked me if SSL enabled Google search was worth using. I would say […]
Amazon is Tracking the Most-Highlighted Kindle Passages
May 19th, 2010DISCLOSURE: Cryptogon is an Amazon affiliate. Now, the piece below states that Amazon, “Doesn’t show which customers made the highlights.” Let me translate that for you: The NSA knows which customers made the highlights. These will add welcome subtleties to your MAIN CORE file, don’t you think? All of this led me to wonder: Just […]
Booz Allen Hamilton Received $400 Million in Cyberwar Contracts in the Past Six Weeks
May 19th, 2010My guess as to which goon will have the largest role in recovery efforts following any major network centric false flag operation: Mike McConnell. —IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way” Via: Wired: Coincidences sure are funny things. Booz Allen Hamilton — the defense contractor that’s […]
Google’s Wi-Fi Spying: What Were They Thinking?
May 16th, 2010Via: PCWorld: “Don’t be evil” has gone all 1984 on us. Or so it seems after Google revealed Friday that its Street View cars, in addition to snapping photos of the world’s roadways, have also been collecting sensitive personal information from unencrypted wireless networks. It was no secret that Google’s cars had already been collecting […]
U.S. Government Can Execute Its Own Citizens With No Judicial Process And Based On Secret Intelligence
May 15th, 2010What do we learn from the New York Times in the article below? Some legal authorities are deeply uneasy about the U.S. Government’s arbitrary assassination of Americans. That is supposed to soothe us, I think. We can rest assured that someone feels deeply uneasy about the government murdering its own citizens. I don’t know about […]
Britain: Identity Cards Set to Be Scrapped
May 13th, 2010While this seems like good news, expect the other shoe to drop soon enough. Via: BBC: Identity cards will be scrapped under plans announced by the new Conservative and Lib Dem coalition government, new Home Secretary Theresa May has said. Their abolition is among measures the parties have agreed to reverse what they say was […]
Bloomberg Wants ‘Big Brother Britain’ For NYC
May 12th, 2010Via: CBS: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his eye on more security against terror attacks. He went to London Tuesday to check out their surveillance camera system, one of the largest in the world. Ever since the Times Square car bomb scare on May 1, the mayor’s been looking to build up New York’s camera network. […]
The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct
May 10th, 2010Via: Village Voice: Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, he began carrying around a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors. He recorded precinct roll calls. He recorded his precinct commander and other supervisors. He […]
National Security Agency and U.S. Army Fund Yale Research Into Amplifier That Pushes the Boundary of Quantum Physics
May 6th, 2010Yes, the obvious application is with quantum computers. This will also, no doubt, be going into military satellites, and probably countless other surveillance systems at some point. The requirement for cryogenic temperatures might delay many applications, but, this is Uncle $ugar that we’re dealing with here. I like the analogy used in the article: The […]
